Mia Nakaji Monnier lives in Los Angeles and works at The Rafu Shimpo, a Japanese American community newspaper. Her writing has also appeared on The Boston Globe, Mental Floss, and Hyphen Magazine. You can reach her on Twitter.
Colby Buzzell was a bored 25 year-old, weary of working dead-end, hand-to-mouth jobs when he decided it would be more exciting and pay better to shoot machine guns in Iraq.
I generally shy away from books with Jesus in the title. Everyone deserves their own trip, as they used to say in the sixties, and Jesus was never really mine. Not…